How is the Russian landing in the NHL
For three weeks of the 101st season, the NHL has already been clearly defined by players leaders and those who remained "on the pickup". But whatever interest is that if there are not our new stars, how, for example, Sergachev or already familiar hockey players with Russian surnames, "rebooted" after not the most successful season? The sports editorial office of "real-time" talks about those Russians in NHL, who surpassed all expectations, and about those from whom we are waiting for more.
Sergey Bobrovsky, "Columbus"
Let's start from the last turn. Moreover, this year we have two names at once in the "frame" of Enhaelov teams that can be proud of. "Columbus" has long heard the eternal middle team: nor big ambitions or trophies, but this is not such a hopeless outsider. Eminent players here are a bit, however, they drive in Ohio. And the most important figure last decade For Columbus, no doubt Sergey Bobrovsky is. If there is no time in the gate or the temporary decline comes from him, it means to unlock the entire team.
Perhaps the only game in which Sergey did not work out, so this is the latter - against Los Angeles. It so happened that Kings all the washers flew exactly there, where it is necessary, so the statistics of Bobrovsky in this match were touched great. But even after this failed game, Bobrovsky is a rather impressive figure of 2.16 goals for the game. And after all, even in a duel with Kings, Bobrovsky created a local miracle, which will be remembered more than all the washers missed them. Just look:
Andrei Vasilevsky, "Tampa Bay"
The second goalkeeper, for which you can see, is the goalkeeper of the Russian team NHL Andrei Vasilevsky.
Vasilevsky at the moment - the youngest first goalkeeper of the NHL team. Having squeezed Bishop from Tampa, Andrei received all the cards in hand, in order to realize himself at the level of the goalkeeper of the Favorite League team. Now he is 23 years old, and this is the most discussed figure in the gate throughout the NHL. Many are not yet fully confident that Vasya is stable enough to protect the gate of the Challenger for the Stanley Cup.
But seven games of eight! In so many matches, Vasilevsky came out the winner with his partners. The percentage of reflection of throws is kept at the level of 93.3%. In other words, such a gang gathered in Tampa, against the background of which Vasilevsky just enough to prevent stupid mistakes, play at a good level and sometimes "pull out" if the situation is critical, like, for example, here:
Vladimir Tarasenko, Saint Louis
Another summer, the Siberian striker announced this season in the NHL as decisive for him. He said that I understood what had to be added, and began to prepare otherwise. Everyone believed, waited for Tarasenko to become the main Russian scoring. Moreover, Ovechkin has no last season at all.
But there is every reason to think that Tarasenko simply has no partners of a sufficient level to become the best in the league. Vladimir is very lacking strong central attackers who can stably bring it to impact positions. Already an aging floor of the Shtyasny in his three level no longer pulls out. It does not look like a superrapist and returned to the NHL Vladimir Sobotel.
Nevertheless, our striker is the main star of "bluesmen." He has a leader 19:43 on ice, so Mike Yeo seems to try to build a game through the extreme attack, without having a strong center.
And yet Tarasenkovsky 5 + 4 in nine matches is good, but no more. It is less than last year, and now Vladimir is not even the second after Ovechkin. We will follow how to go further. Before the playoffs are still far away.
Artemy Panarin, "Columbus"
"Breadshops" at least still does not particularly score, but a lot is assisted and distributes the "bombing" interviews in which it refutes its "keyino-dependence". Artemy 1 + 8, (and twice he made an assistant hat-tricks) in his new club, and it would be time for him to score and himself to prove his theory.
One of the main problems of Panarin in "Columbus" can be a pretty dictatorial manner of the leadership of the trainer John Torotorla. He does not like hockey players, creating miracles only ahead, he needs both horses that work out in defense. It seems, Artemy Panarin has not yet been very used to new conditions. But everything is ahead.
Nikita Kucherov and Vladislav Vicarov, "Tampa Bay"
Just the main star of the whole National Hockey League here and now - Nikita Kucherov, who breaks absolutely everyone. He does not stop him "Pittsburgh", which Floridians were separated into the sins (although who does not distribute them now?), Pokolov current champion Several master's heads, neither "Rangers" nor last year's finalist Nashville, nor the same "Saint Luis" Vladimir Tarasenko.
Judge for yourself: "Lighting" from the start of the season spent 9 matches, Kucher had already scored 16 (10 + 6) glasses and caught up with Ovechkin in the number of abandoned washers. Now two Russians on a couple heads the race for the prize to the best scorer "Morris Richard Trophy".
This season is 24-year-old Russian Doros to the status of a challenger for the title best player League. What is Connor McDeavid, when in the south of the United States "Fryry" such a fast and intelligent Russian guy named Nikita?
The second Russian, without which "Tampa" would not be there, where we see her today, it is Vladislav Poznikov, who scored a good 10 (3 + 7) glasses. If Kucher is scored more, then the governors to him and Stamkos will assist. Yes, the second of four Russians "Tampa" receives significantly less than, however, only earns the status of a hidden hero of the team, properly "wearing the piano." Although at this moment everything was the opposite.
Alexander Ovechkin, "Washington"
Whether the critics addressed to Alexander the Great for the form at his own wedding, whether his own discontent was spurred by "our all" to prepare for the season differently. Everyone remembers that last season has become the most unsuccessful for Ovechkin. So in the present he had to go one of two scenarios: either finally folded the powers of the best arrow of the NHL and gradually go to the shadow, well, and then on the route NHL - KHL - State Duma, or something to do with him and return On a familiar rut from 50+ washers in the "Regular" and the struggle for the Stanley Cup.
As expected, Alexander chose the second way. For 9 games, he has 10 pucks, which means that it goes yet even with ahead of schedule! Moreover, Ovechkin resumed the tradition to beat numerous League Records. Last week, for example, he scored a victorious puck in the Overtime of the NHL regular season, bypassing this indicator of the great Yaromir Jagra.
Ovechkin did not just scored a huge number of heads in the NHL. He throws better than anyone else in the league, - admired the game of his ward main coach Washington Barry Trot. - If we give Ovechkin enough opportunities, they will definitely be goals.
Nail Yakupov, "Colorado"
The game of Yakupov in the NHL is already unambiguous in the old tradition. "Colorado" issued a rather frisky start, winning four matches of five and hardly jumping into the leading top three. Nail threw three washers and, it seemed, I found "Chemistry" with Kerfut and Matt Duzheny, thoroughly unwinding all rivals in defense. The team stood in a new way after last year's shame, looked fresh and easy. And Jacpets himself said that all his new team suits him. It would seem that you still need to finally be fixed in the NHL?
However, soon the Yakupov began for the old and simply stopped playing. In the lost match with Saint Louis, the head coach "Colorado" Jared Bednar was already in the second period, Naila was put on a bench and no longer released.
"Today, in our composition there were" passengers ", and Yakupov was one of them," said Bednar. - When you play against the best team of the division, you can not act so stupid. Several mistakes that we did not have the right to admit, cost us the game. "
This is all that you need to know about the career of Yakupov overseas. Time to correct is still there, but with each new season it is becoming less and less.
Alexander Burmistrov, Vancouver
The Kazan hockey player in the NHL is no better. According to statistics, everything is sad (1 + 3), and Alexander earned their first assistant points only last week, and his only goal was scored not the brightest "Ottawa." In the same game, the "Burmi" earned another assistant point for the transfer to Bosra Brother, receiving the title of the third star of the match.
But for a player who has such a chance "thanks to" injury to Erickson and Satter's attackers, Alexander would need to act a lot more active in order to get a stable place at least in the third link. After all, with such a game, which he shows today, who returned leaders can suck him for a long time or send to AHL.
Alexander Radulov, Dallas
Nevajnetski still looks like Alexander Radulov in his new team "Dallas Stars". Start in Texas he was far worse than last year in Montreal. Only on October 18, Radulov abandoned his first and at the moment the only washer for Dallas. His statistics - 4 (1 + 3) points - grieved and the most tary of his fans.
Alexander is not accounted for without intelligent errors. For example, in a recent game against Nashville (1: 4), his loss turned around the third missed washer, and the attacker himself eventually earned -2 \u200b\u200butility. Get the most big time On Ice among the attackers, he struck only one throw. This is clearly not what they expect from the player who allocate an average of 19 minutes of playing time.
Mitigating the thorough can be called except that the fact that a long chandryl and the whole "starter". Only in the last four games the Texans managed to break the situation. Keep fists to and Alex found himself in a green team.
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Such popularity was had in the Soviet Union, and later in Russia, players of hockey team, other athletes can hardly boast.
Famous hockey players Russia becomes almost national heroes that everyone knows from schoolchildren to pensioners. Their biographies sports achivments, personal life is discussed in companies, covered in the press, carefully follow their overseas successes. If in the USSR, the players information was not particularly distributed among the population of a huge country (many hockey players were considered servicemen), then in our time to find out everything about their idiot is not difficult.
Heroes of our time
It is difficult to accommodate in one article all who deserves the title "The most famous hockey players of Russia", but I want to remember separately about several particularly successful players.
One of these celebrities of the Russian hockey is Yevgeny Malkin, who, despite a number of frankly unsuccessful seasons, still showed himself as a real leader of the national team. Participation in the three championships of the world and two and 2010) speaks of high mastery and performance of this hockey player. His sports career Eugene began in Magnitogorsk, where his father, who he himself was playing hockey in his youth, has already put his son to skates from three years.
Among the trophies of Evgenia Malkina there is a title " best Novika Seasons "(2004), and a Golden Helmet Prize, which is awarded the best striker, Russian Championships awards, just olympic gold did not submit. Like many other famous hockey players of Russia, Eugene successfully played in the Zaoca Hockey League.
NHL stars
With the fall of the iron curtain, the Soviet hockey players had a unique opportunity to try their strength in the most titled and famous hockey league, which was collected in their teams "cream" of world hockey. The famous hockey players of the USSR and Russia showed themselves in NHL in different ways. For some, it became the beginning of a dizzying career (Pavel Bure, Vyacheslav Fetisov, Igor Larionov, Sergey Fedorov), and someone was lost in the harsh world of the NHL, where the strongest (Viktor Nechaev, Sergey Sochnikov,
Russian hockey players in different ways came to the clubs of the National Skoking League: Some Just ran from Sergey Fedorov), others were looking for the opportunity to officially leave the native walls (Sergey Pryakhin, Sergey Starikov, Vyacheslav Fetisov). Today, young and promising athletes are detective stories They seem unreal: to get into the NHL, enough talent and perseverance.
Modern stars of Russian hockey in NHL
To date, Russian hockey players have a great representation in the overseas hockey league. They successfully play in various American and Canadian clubs, deserving respect and honor of local fans. Nikita Cocknikov, Dmitry Orlov, Mikhail Grigorenko - the famous hockey players of Russia spend a lot of strength and energy to defend their right to play the main compositions of the NHL teams.
Many of the legionnaires are regularly invited to the Russian national team to participate in European and world championships, as well as Olympic tournaments. It is difficult to imagine the Russian national team without such NHL stars, like Alexander Ovechkin, Pavel Datsyuk, Nikolai Kulemin.
Hockey Hall of NHL
The first representative in this hall was our famous goalkeeper later, Valery Harlamov and Vyacheslav Fetisov joined him. Only the most outstanding players from all over the world come to this room. Igor Larionov was also awarded this honor for a great contribution to the development of global hockey.
There is in this room and the coach of the USSR hockey team - Anatoly Tarasov. Despite his ambiguous and not always simple relationships and players, and with party functionaries, without which no sport in the former Soviet Union was not accounted for, he was highly appreciated by the overall specialists, especially after a series of matches with representatives of the NHL Star Team.
Future of Russian hockey
Despite a number of failures that the Russian hockey team failed in the last Olympic tournaments, the fans do not lose hope that their idols still succeeded to become the best team in the world. Such a glory, what was the national team Soviet Union, just does not go anyone. To really become champions, alone star names are not enough. Daily persistent work, loyalty and dedication of the chosen profession - these are constant components of success.
Lists of all hockey players of Russia (famous and beginner players) are replenished with new names, which can be proud of the country. Perhaps it is precisely the new generation of hockey players who came to the change of the "Old Guard", it will be possible to return to the former glory and respect that the players of the USSR national team were proud of. And our contemporaries will also be devoted to the songs, as they did to the titled predecessors.
2014 can enter the story as a year when the star rose Andrei Vasilevsky. The talented goalkeeper lives in the capital of Bashkiria, we learned much earlier. However, in the past year, Vasilevsky rose to the step above, having ceased to be just a young and promising player. It is symbolic that at the beginning of the year he brought from Malmo the last reward in youth hockeyLike a breakdown of this page. Vasilevsky finally moved into an adult hockey with its amplitude of lifting and falling. For how Andrei played in the Gagarin Cup draw and on the Debut World Cup, he can be raised "excellent" without tensioners.
Vasilevsky put at the World Championships not a point, but a beautiful comma. In order not to spoil the impression of the year, he needed to pass the AHL test. Up until December, it seemed that the young Russian goalkeeper drowned in the lower overseas league. What a dozen best can we talk about if Vasilevsky even in the Farm Club "Tampa Bay" loses competition? However, the Ufa Wunderkinda took only a month to break into our rating. Having played at 30,000 spectators and becoming a player of the week in Ahl, he received a challenge to Tampa, where he showed himself in all its glory. . Until Nabokov sits on his back Varlamov heal injury Khobobin fails the season, and Bobrovsky Just begins to recruit the former conditsa, Vasilevsky finishes the year in the status of the strongest Russian goalkeeper.
In Russia, hockey is recognized as one of the most popular sports. Thousands of spectators with ecstasy follow the battles, wondering how passions, wing on the site, will not be trampled ice. The biggest attention at all times was attracted to themselves stars hockey - Players showing special skills during competitions. Let's find out who they are the most famous hockey players in Russia and the world.
Photo: M.Dp.ru.The Soviet Union gave the world many brilliant hockey players. One of them - Pavel Bure, nicknamed abroad for the incredible speed characteristics of the "Russian rocket".
Pavel's brilliant path began very early. Having connected to hockey at 6 years, at his age he had already won the highest award of the country, becoming the champion of the USSR (he received this title for another twice). A year later, he stands again on the podium podium, but already in the world championship.
So brilliant career young talent It could not be unnoticed. Abroad always appreciated russian athletes And scientists and often lured them into their clubs and organizations. I did not exception and Pavel Bure - after the winning championship, he left and began to perform for the Vancouver club. It was thanks to him that Canada managed to conquer one of the highest hockey awards - Stanley Cup.
Photo: Mos.News. But after 7 years, the hockey player is still returning to his homeland, and plays a CSKA club native to him. And although it seemed that the peak of Career Bure had already passed, he again conquers the medal, though this time is silver. But it happens on Olympic Games.
Pavel Bure, perhaps the most famous Russian hockey player abroad. Former club Highly appreciated his merit: 10 The room, which was conquered on its form of as many as 7 years, finally fastened behind the hockey player and seized from use. Plus, in the Guinness Book of Records, the name of the attacker is also there.
Photo: newyorkrancers.cz. Swedish goalkeeper Henrik Lundquist, in addition to all numerous championship titles, has a truly outstanding nickname - King Henrik. This is no wonder: the player is considered one of the highest paid goalkeepers. At least, in NHL, in this indicator, he has no equal.
Hockey player played in several clubs, but since 2000 he remains at the same place, rejecting any proposals on the transition: a favorable contract with New York Rainzers allows Lundquist to fully provide themselves with the means of existence. It is the main goalkeeper of the team and can be said with confidence that the Club is obliged to prize in the championships in the championships of various levels to him: the coefficient of the shab, equal to 93, is not a joke!
Thanks to its achievements, King Henrik regularly plays for the Swedish national team. And in its composition he earned honorary awards - gold and silver of the Olympic Games, as well as a medal for the first place at the 2017 World Cup.
Photo: vdvgazeta.ru. Is there a person in Russia who does not know the famous hockey player, but now - a famous statesman? The physical and mental abilities of this person serve as evidence that the statement "the force is - the mind is not necessary" is in the root of the wrong.
For his sports career, Fetisov was able to win all the well-known top hockey titles. So, he became the world champion in the national team as much as 7 times! And notice, this number includes only gold medals, in addition to which the hockey player has 2 silver and as many bronze awards of this tournament.
Photo: Sportfm.ru. Fetisov participated in the Olympic Games, where he was able to win the title of champion, and also get a reward for the second place. About the main tournament of the USSR and it is not worth talking: here at the highest point of the pedestal hockey player turned out to be as many as 13 (!).
In addition to sports medals, Vyacheslav Fetisov has many state awardsThe most significant of which are the Order of 3 degrees "For Merit to Fatherland" and Peter the Great Prize, whose contribution to the development of the Russian state is noted.
Photo: Philly.com. In hockey, as is known, not one player, but a whole team, and the coach is usually losing. Shi Weater is a defender who just should not allow his team to leave the ice without a vacation in the next competition. And I must say with this task, he successfully copes.
When at a young age, WEBER faced the problem of choosing a gaming position, then he, after some hesitations, chose the place of the defender. But what is interesting: a person who, in fact, should not score the washers in the opponent's gate, has one atypical feature - his blow to strength is much superior to those who are capable of making attackers NHL. This fact is confirmed by the results of the Superkillus contest.
A series of gold awards received for participating in various championships, Webera has almost continuous. Since the hockey player won his first World Cup, he became the winner of many competitions, including the two-time champion of the Olympic Games.
Photo: Redo.me.uk. One of the most famous hockey players Modern, today is one of the best attackers NHL - Alexander Ovechkin, a native of Russia. All his youth career is connected with the famous Dynamo club, the love of which has been transferred to the hockey player from the mother playing earlier here, but only in a basketball team.
Remove abroad Alexander managed not immediately. He rejected the proposal of many agents, could not resist only before "Washington Capital", as part of which is also located. Over the years of his brilliant speeches, the team entered one of the leading positions in the list of world hockey clubs. Ovechkin himself is the owner of a variety of hockey awards, the most important of which can be considered a three-year title of world champion.
Hockey player is characterized by some eccentricity. With his name, several curious cases are connected, among which the greatest fame received a visit to the reception of the President of the Russian Federation in beach slippers.
Photo: sport.bigmir.net. "Great and Horrible" goalkeeper of the era of ingenious goalkeepers. Hockey player who did not follow the trends, but creating them. A person who has established many records on ice, most of which are still not beaten. All these words are about the legendary goalkeeper of Canada, which has Ukrainian roots. His name is Terry Savchuk.
"Ice Hero" had a rather sad fate. His whole life was filled with tragedies. Some of them were associated with a personal life, for example, the death of a brother, the ammunition of which and went to Savchuk. Others are associated with a favorite sport: a lot of injuries, including such a large, as a gap of the dorsal disks, which led to the fact that the player could not completely straighten up. You should not talk about small and talk: you can only remember that I played Terry without a mask, and instead of a hockey glove for fishing, the washers used the baseball.
Photo: Live.Freep.com. But Savchuk stubbornly walked to his goal, putting his career at the head of the corner. And that is why he managed to achieve such amazing success: Terry has established many records, among which two are most famous. The first is the number of collected matches with an equal score in NHL, equal to 172 - does not break until now. The second - 103 "dry" games in a row - I managed to surpass only after 39 years in another star Hockey - Martin Brodter.
Who knows how many records could further establish the famous goalkeeper if the tragic accident did not cut his life. A fight with a neighbor in the apartment led to terrible injury - the aperture of the diaphragm from which he did not recover.
Photo: Scoopnest.com. Great goalkeeper, well known both in Russia and abroad - the famous Vladislav Tretyak. He is a living confirmation that not all ingenious athletes of Russia sooner or later went to play European clubs. Even the last sentence of the most famous "Montreal Canadias", which contained as much as six zeros, the third rejection.
Playing all his life in the USSR, he took the club to the most 12 times high bed Pedestal honors. And three times was olympic champion As part of the national team. Interestingly, the famous goalkeeper could not get into the framework: initially he played as an attacker. The story was widespread that he got into the gate only because of the desire to quickly get his first form. Is it so, knows only Vladislav himself.
Photo: Twitter.com. In Hockey, he became a real innovator. Thanks to him, a widespread mask of a goalkeeper, made of wire, which is called "Cat Eye". And the famous bearer rack - "Butterfly", allowing the goal defender to fall on the ice, first revealed the world that the Tretyak, who refused to use the peak of the popularity of the "AP Stand".
Leaving the ice, the famous hockey player did not manage to remove it from his heart. He is engaged in coaching work abroad. Interesting to him and other classes: now he is in public service.
Hockey Stars - the greatest players, forever put their names in the history of this sport. Among them are a lot of immigrants from Russia who have earned world recognition.
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Russian hockey players have long shown their skills far beyond the world, and the game of the most talented athletes admire foreign fans. Each of them once wanted to play NHL, where today it lights up and more russian stars.
First game in NHL
In the time of the USSR, when it was not so easy to get abroad, hockey players still sought North Americawhere there was a completely different level of the game and wages. The game in the NHL is a dream for all hockey players, and who denies it undoubtedly shouted. Many players fell into another country illegally, and after the collapse of the Soviet Union, and at all quickly sought to leave Russia. Some of them did not take out in a new place, others remained in foreign teams, but did not fully disclose their talents. Yet, many of them opened the skill of Russian athletes to the whole world and became the real legends of hockey.
For the first time, the Russians appeared in the NHL in 1983, when Viktor Nechaeva was released on the ice on the team of NHL "Los Angeles" for three matches. The official permission to participate in the NHL was the first to get Sergey Pichene, who went to the ice as part of Vancouver Chanax. Before leaving the country, hockey player played the "Wings of the Soviets".
Some of the most famous Soviet athletes who went to conquer North America, became Vyacheslav Fetisov, Igor Larionov, and Vladimir Krutov. They left their homeland, quarreling because of his departure with their coach Tikhonov.
Like Sergey Fedorov, after the Olympics in 1989, remained in Sweden, then both moved to the NHL. In these players in the USSR, a criminal case was opened, in which they were accused of themselves as officers in the treason of their homeland, but after the expiration of time, this accusation lost relevance. Here the first Russians in NHL were with such obstacles, where they confirmed their professionalism on the whole world.
Since the beginning of the 90s, hockey players from Russia have become massively leaving for North America. There were only 80 people in the US teams, but in the 2000s this number decreased due to the decline in the quality of the game and too high prices for the purchase of players.
The most famous modern Russian players in the NHL
The list of Russians in the NHL today, undoubtedly, heads his game under the eighth number in Washington, no one leaves any of the fans of hockey, does not leave indifferent. He always improves his indicators and acquires fans all over the world. He is the brightest striker who has already received two awards "Hart Trofi", and his career peak is still ahead. In the 2015/2016 season, the striker scored 43 goals in 73 games.
Russian statistics in the NHL shows the stunning results of another attacker - Eugene Malkina. Appearing in the NHL in 2007, he earned the title of the best new member of the League. Scored 27 goals in 53 matches of the last game season.
Pavel Datsyuk today plays in Detroit as a brilliant striker. His game causes admiration for fans, and statistics are improved with each season.
In the role of the striker spent 72 matches, during which 29 goals did. Also in the role of a successful striker playing which, according to statistics, spent 74 matches in the NHL and scored 25 heads. On the account of the young striker Evgeny Kuznetsov 75 matches and 20 goals in the league.
Top Russian scorers in NHL
The name of Sergei Fedorova today is known to all lovers of hockey. This man received many awards, three times took Stanley Cup, and his results as a scorer talk for themselves. Hockey player is included in Hockey Glory Hall.
Alexander Mogyul after his escape from the Union did not immediately receive the desired recognition. He worked for many years in the New Jersey team and was able to conquer Stanley Cup. The grave did not participate in the match of all stars and deservedly recognized as one of the best scorers.
In the attack, the best Russians in the NHL were represented by the famous and honored NHL player whose name was the synonym for the phrase "Russian hockey player". For his brilliant game and quick response, Vancouver and Florida Pantherz fans were honored with the rank of "Russian rocket" and the title of best scorer their teams. Bure 7 times took part in the match of the stars, and although he did not won the Stanley Cup, but for all the glory of the great athlete for himself.
In addition to their merit in the role of the attacker, spent the largest number of matches among the Russians. The first captain among the Russian players was who also gained huge popularity in North America.
The most famous Russian defenders
Sergey Gonchar is the best defender among russian hockey players Abroad. For 1301 Match, he did 811 points and received the Stanley Cup. The most productive was his game in Pittsburgh Penguins, where he is now working as a coach.
Just like Gonchar, I achieved 1 thousand points, playing in the league, and received the title of the most effective defender.
The Kanadiens player Andrei Markov is an attacker defender and, thanks to the love of his fans and a huge work on himself, became one of the best in Hockey, also participated in the match of all stars.
Russian Five
In 1995, Detroit coach Scotty Boumen, who loved the pupils of the Russian school hockey, created the legendary link from five Russian players, including Sergey Fedorov, Vyacheslav Fetisov, Vladimir Konstantinov, Vyacheslav Kozlov and Igor Larionov. In such a composition, the team received the name "Russian Five" and earned the love of many fans. Russian hockey players in the NHL twice took the Stanley Cup, which is the most important reward in the NHL, and also raised the team with their coherent game.
All famous Vyacheslav Fetisov became one of the best defenders soviet hockey And earned a lot of awards, but his path to admission was also quite thorny. Russians in the NHL passed real tests where they really show themselves strongest players. In NHL, Fetisov came in the age of thirty and, while he received a serious injury that he did not prevent him from achieving success and get the main league Cup.
Another member of the Russian five was defender Vladimir Konstantinov. His career in the hockey league rapidly grew up. Together with his compatriots, he managed to get the main award in Hockey. After the terrible car accident, Konstantinov forever left the game in the NHL.
Strong goalkeepers from Russia
The representative of a successful goalkeeper in the League is Nikolai Khabibulin, who in 2004 received Stanley Cup for the first time among Russian goalkeepers. For a long period, Habibulin was considered the best goalkeeper in a hockey league.
Nikolai Nabokova loves the fans and can be proud of them. He failed to get the main cup, but thanks to the results of his game, he secured a reputation as one of the most successful athletes guarded by the gate.
On the Russian goalkeeper's account, Varlamov's seeds are already more than a hundred victories in the league. He successfully guarded the gate to Washington and Colorado.
The Stanley Cup owner is Ilya Bryzgalov, who received him, being a goalkeeper "Anhaiama". He also successfully played the club "Edminton", "Phoenix", "Minnesota" and in other clubs.
The best modern goalkeeper, who amazes his game, is he already become a living legend, and he has a lot of matches in the NHL ahead to enter the history of world hockey.
Who is the best
It is difficult to say who is the most famous and well-deserved Russian hockey player of all time. But one thing is known for sure that the Russians in the NHL achieved grandiose individual and command resultsThus, showing how professional is the game in Russia, which needs to be developed and encouraged. Without the legendary Russian stars, the history of world hockey would lose a lot of achievements and awards. One player is noticed impossible, because each talented defender or scorer from Russia made a huge contribution to the development of the stunning and most courageous sport.